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Sources for Editorial Cartoons

The Cartoon Bank
A searchable/browseable index of New Yorker cartoons

Opposing Viewpoints
Includes historic and contemporary editorial cartoons on controversial social issues
AAEC - Association of American Editorial Cartoonists
USAToday Editorial Cartoons
Organizes editorial cartoons by popular topics
U.S. News Editorial Cartoons
Provides daily editorial cartoons and groups cartoons by hot topics in the news

Editorial Cartoon Collections - on Reserve

These titles are on Reserve at the Grand Mesa Hall library location (across the field from the library construction site):

The Political Cartoon
Call Number: Reserve - NC1763.P66 P73
Editorial and Political Cartooning: from earliest times to the present, with over 700 examples from the works of the world's greatest cartoonists
Call Number: Reserve - NC1325 .H63
Editorial Cartooning and Caricature
Publication Date: Reserve - E183.3 .S66 1998
Herblock's History : political cartoons from the crash to the millennium
Call Number: Reserve - LC 1.2:H 62/9

Article Databases

Opposing Viewpoints in Context This link opens in a new window
Subject: Social Sciences, History, Business, Health, Law, Politics.Analysis of current social issues from different points of view. Often includes overviews of the history and controversies around a topic.
Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Subjects: History, Literature, Sociology, Psychology, Political Science, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics. Art.
Multidisciplinary index to peer-reviewed journal and magazine articles; some full-text; constructs bibliography in five different citation styles.
US Major Dailies This link opens in a new window
Subject: Business, Language, Literature, and Communication Contains full text of the New York Times (including the Book Review and Magazine), Wall Street Journal, The Chicago Tribune, LA Times, and the Washington Post.
Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
Subjects: Business, Languages, Literature & Mass Communication Full-text regional, national & international newspapers, state and federal court cases and statutes, law reviews, and company profiles.
CQ Researcher This link opens in a new window
Subjects: Social & Behavioral Sciences, Health Sciences, Political Sciences, Law Enforcement Index with full-text to in-depth studies on current or controversial issues from 1991-current. Note: only 5 users at any given time.

Use the box above to search for books and ebooks in the library collection. Hardcopy books are shelved on the 3rd floor of the library.

Prospector is a shared catalog of the major libraries in Colorado and Wyoming, providing access to over 30 million items. Request materials for delivery from other libraries to Tomlinson Library (usually within 3-5 business days).

Visual Rhetoric

Viz
An award-winning digital publication viz. is committed to the intersections of Rhetoric and visual culture. In keeping with its mission to promote visual literacy, the viz. blog presents a daily community forum for discussing images in the digital age. The website attracts a steady, significant following with an international audience made up of users from 144 countries and territories. Maintained by the Digital Writing and Research Lab at the University of Texas at Austin and by members of the Visual Rhetoric Project Group.
EdWordle
EdWordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide.
The Visual Communication Guy
Provides guidelines and advice as well as a thoughtful blog considering real world aspects of visual rhetoric and effective design.

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